58 THE UPPER YUKON 



The amount of soil and roots that had been 

 ripped up by this one bear was remarkably 

 large. 



We pitched camp at 6.30 P. M., having 

 covered thirty-one miles for the day. 



Next day a drove of horses was encountered 

 and the two men in charge lost about ten out 

 of the bunch and necessarily had to go back 

 after them. 



Another Indian village was reached, but 

 not a human being was there. The inhabit- 

 ants, like those of the other settlement, were 

 off on a moose hunt. Here we found quite a 

 number of caches raised on high poles, some 

 of them being quite pretentious affairs, and on 

 a mountain near by we saw a grave covered 

 with a pretty little house, crowned with a 

 flag. The occupant of the grave was a young 

 Indian girl eight years of age. Laid on 

 the mound were some needlework, some beads 

 and thread, a piece of flannel, and a strip of 

 caribou hide for her to embroider in the 

 happy hunting ground. This particular tribe 

 of Indians take considerable pride in showing 

 respect to their dead. 



On the twentieth we stopped for a short 

 visit at the cabin of a man who had a month 

 previously bought from an Indian a little 



